Ffolkes,
“How can we contrive to be at once astonished at the world
and yet at home in it?”
~~ G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy ~~
Congressional committee in conference….
By modern standards, & probably precise definition, I am what most would label as a ‘pagan’, as one who does not subscribe to any of the major, or even lesser, of the world’s religions. Thomas Paine’s idea of his mind being his only church, and his inner nature his only moral guide, is closer to what I perceive to be right in reality. Too much of what the church’s try to make people believe never struck me as particularly believable, or likely to be the true nature of reality. I mostly covered that belief up with a thick shield, & tried not to discuss it much with anyone, as it never seemed to have good results. So, this holiday season can be a bit problematic for me, what with the rest of my species, or most of it, engaged in a frenzy of capitalist consumerism, which they’ve all come to believe expresses the “Christmas spirit”… SIGH. Silly monkeys….
Having said this, I find myself, as is common during this season, alone with my cat, wondering if having different thoughts, and believing differently, is a worthwhile pastime. Then I consider all I see happening in today’s world, and am content to be myself. Knowing that, if no one else knows, the Buddha has my back on this; the whole of the religious world, & all religions, tell us that peace and happiness resides outside ourselves, in the knowledge of God, by whatever name each decides he must be called. In that light, I can only be glad I know that to be untrue, & unnecessary, for all of it, God, peace, and happiness, are already right there inside us, only waiting to be recognized to be made available to us…..
So, today, on Christianity’s stolen pagan holiday, I offer the following entertainment; some of the best rock & roll ever heard, from about 35 years ago, one of my older poems, and some fine pearls to ponder, along with my, shall we say, extemporaneous remarks. Hell, my kids are grown, & I had nothing better to do, so, there you go…. Let’s do this the easy way, like this….
Shall we Pearl?
“Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.”
~~ Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld ~~
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Stevie Ray Vaughan
Switch it on, sit back, and enjoy, ffolkes; it just doesn’t get any better than this…..
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Demon’s Bane
Endless nights lead inexorably into endless days
while the battle for peace rages.
Lost arts find new meaning used in new ways;
to burn, yearn, and turn all the new pages.
Darkness falls heavily on bowed shoulders, contrite;
fireworks travel fast in nervous tissue.
The pace is kept, clean, but, never erudite;
such a pale tale of ancient issue.
Peering in terror down long, long halls of night
brings only confusion, destitute in sorrow.
Cannot time become our enemy, eager to fight
on the side which may never see tomorrow?
The longing gaze of passion, for reason to live,
must fall ever more faithfully into sedition,
else the clinging visions we claim to give,
shall not prevent reaching inevitable perdition.
Rising up, clarity of purpose shines the light of day
upon such a desolate landscape of absent release.
There is no escape, no furthering of the way.
Time never knows how to grant peace.
~~ gigoid ~~
11/23/2015
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Naked Pearls
Notes on process & program….
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“Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, is he who,
hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.”
~~ Homer (c. 700 B.C.) ~~
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“If you understand, things are as they are.
If you do not understand, things are as they are.”
~~ Gensha, Zen Master ~~
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“Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
When perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed;
nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth,
any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.”
~~ Tacitus ~~
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“No slave is ever freed, save he freeth himself.”
~~ The Oldest Human Sage, Anonymous ~~
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“As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him,
that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future,
he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found.
He will look for solutions and answers at every point
except where they can be found
–in himself.”
~~ Erich Frohm ~~
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“I think the dragon’s asleep.”
~~ Famous Last Words ~~
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I believe I have managed as much confusion and/or elucidation as possible for one holiday morning, so, I’ll let this go without further ado. I hope you enjoy the winter weather, for it has arrived, for sure and for certain. I also hope you enjoy the holiday, and extract as much peace & joy as is there to be found. Y’all be well, be happy as you may be, and, if only for my sake, be as strange as you allow yourself to be. I promise to do the same, at least until next we meet…. See ya, ffolkes….
Y’all take care out there,
and May the Metaphorse be with you;
Blessed Be, dearest Carole, Mark,Theresa, & Richy
and everyone else, too…
When I works, I works hard.
When I sits, I sits loose.
When I thinks, I falls asleep.
Which is Why….
Sometimes I sits and thinks,
and sometimes,
I just sits.
gigoid, the dubious
The *only* duly authorized Computer Curmudgeon.
PLEASE STOP READING THIS MESSAGE NOW.
“SCRAM!!!!!!!!!!”- Oscar the Grouch
À bientôt, mon cherí….
gigoid 
Stevie is fine choice for tunes……religion….I agree with U and Tom Paine……I am my best religion….nice to see you writing….hope you had a good Christmas and are well….chuq
Agreed, Stevie always fits in fine… Thanks, my friend; it’s good to be back, to some degree. Been feeling fine, all in all, & can now walk about as far as I wish without having to rest much. Christmas was good, all in all; I hope you and yours had a good season too. I’ll be around, though not like the past…. but, it feels good to write…. Take care, ami….
gigoid
Glad to hear all is sell….my Xmas was fine just glad it is over….I will be looking for you when you write….chuq
“the whole of the religious world, & all religions, tell us that peace and happiness resides outside ourselves, in the knowledge of God, by whatever name each decides he must be called. In that light, I can only be glad I know that to be untrue, & unnecessary, for all of it, God, peace, and happiness, are already right there inside us, only waiting to be recognized to be made available to us…..”
-gigoid
Finding God Within as Simply All that is Ocean Whole
True i would have been so Happy if this Paragraph
Replaced Most of What i Heard Sunday Thru Monday
in Three Catholic Masses as such focused on Mangers
And Just one Baby and Just One Man instead of What all
Naturally lives Within all of us for it is True if God Does not
Exist As A Beach Without the Foot Prints of any ByProduct of
Human Culture God Does not Live except for in what Human Leaves
Behind
and true
there is
no Tree
of Life in and
as of That for True
too.. as the Sound of A Tree
Falling in a Forest With no one
to See iT it is a Rather Moot Point for
Us iF THere is No Human Species anyway hehe..
And that’s
where the
Gift and
Miracle
of Life comes
in Loving Life if We aReNoW
Fortunate Enough in Practice
to See and Feel and Sense Life
this way now in a Small Sliver of
Heaven Amongst Hot and Cold
Rocks in Space.. And Perhaps
Deserts and Icy Mountains
With Smaller amounts
of Oxygen to
Breathe
too not Withstanding
all of what Humans Take
Away Without Giving Back to Nature too..
Other than That i will Say ThankS AGAiN gigoid
For Providing So much Wisdom Yes The Beauty
of Wisdom in Kind Courage With Dressing Of LoVE
aS WeLL that and who is not Afraid to Be as True
3 years
Ago..
i might not Have
Ever Just for Fun then
to Challenge my Human
Nature Got inspired enough
On Your Site to Write a 41K Word
“GodsUniverseNovel” MacroVerse
During Christmas of 2015 if Not For All
the Inspiration From Aphorisms You Share
From the Sages of the Ages You Still Provide
Freely Here from You.. then on to A 51K Word
Version of “GodsUniVerseNovel2”.. A Couple of Months
Later in 2016 and Finally “GodsUniVerseNovel3”.. A Couple
Months Later than that at the End of April in 338,630 Words
As The Single Longest MacroVerse Comprised of A Year’s effort
of Responding Back to all the Poet’s at dVerse and all their links
For a Year for that also.. Just ChaSinG a little bit more Human Potential
Without
Regard
to Likes
Follows
Shares Dollar
Bills or any of the
Other Government Green
Black Printed Paper
Bills Either Back
then.. And the Beat/Dance/Song GoeS
oN finishing up the 8th of 8 Personal
King James Sized Bibles as Titled in
64 Months and 6.6 MiLLioN Words “SonG oF
mY SoUL” For Real as Well as in ThankS AGAiN Too..
For providing the Space to Advance that Effort True
As Well too.. SMiLes mY FriEnd No Living iN A Cave
And copying the Same Old Dam Art Frames to me or anyone
Chopping Down any of the Potential Branches of a Sycamore
Tree For What Can And May And Will Come Next For Real NoW True too…
“How can we contrive to be at once astonished at the world
and yet at home in it?”
~~ G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy ~~
Keep Moving
Preferably
ALWays
A SonG
DancE True..;)
“Everyone complains of his lack of memory,
but nobody of his want of judgment.”
~~ Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld ~~
True except if one is Pagan As Such
And not
Let
in the
Church Circus…
Dancing Singing Hallelujah
on the Way ouT oN CourSE..;)
“Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, is he who,
hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.”
~~ Homer (c. 700 B.C.) ~~
Poetry Secrets NoW
Revealing Ignorance
oF SWords
“If you understand, things are as they are.
If you do not understand, things are as they are.”
~~ Gensha, Zen Master ~~
ALWaY CHanGE NoW
“Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
When perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed;
nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth,
any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.”
~~ Tacitus ~~
Still Stranger Than Fiction”….
“No slave is ever freed, save he freeth himself.”
~~ The Oldest Human Sage, Anonymous ~~
CLiCHE ReaL Free to BE Me too..;)
“As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him,
that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future,
he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found.
He will look for solutions and answers at every point
except where they can be found
–in himself.”
~~ Erich Frohm ~~
“I think the dragon’s asleep.”
~~ Famous Last Words ~~
‘Yeah Baby as ‘Austin Powers’
And the 6.6 MiLLioN Word Man
Might Say Play WitH all the
Shadows of the Dragon
Deep Within Poetry
Secrets NoW
Revealing
Ignorance
oF SWords…
SMiLes mY FriEnd gigoid got
About A Dozen Little Somethings in A
Fire And so Far Truly only one Accountant
to Help me with All the Hidden Facts and Figure…
BuT It’s True i am Assured oF A Vacation When i Die at LeasT hAha..;)
Hi, Fred; it’s always a joy to read your riffs on Pearls…. and, aye, we can sleep when we’re dead…. *grin* Enjoy the day brother….
gigoid
Thanks mY
FriEnd
Hehe..
to: From:
The Best Of
My Potentials
iWiLL
iDo
iJoy
With SMiLes
Of Thank You gigoid.. Life Comes NoW..:)